Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Lebanese Authors - Page 6

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.

I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they're often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening.

Every few months, I find myself in Europe or the Middle East.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

I don't think I make 'Chick Flicks.'

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

Hezbollah has a presence - it is in the government, and it enjoys support in the country - but this doesn't mean that Hezbollah is in control of the entire Lebanon.

I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

You have to take care of your skin.

Islam believes that Jesus is a prophet, and they honour him - highly - and they respect him, and they follow his teachings. So, for me, as somebody who was raised Muslim, it is an honour to actually play Jesus, just because of that.

There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

The celebrities that really protect their skin and look great, whether they're wearing makeup or not, are Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Alba and Jessica Chastain.

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

In all of life, I've never heard of a C-section where a scalpel goes too deep and actually slices into the baby's forehead. Or even touches the baby's forehead.

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.

Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating.

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.

If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.

I am not close minded at all to having more children.

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.

If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.